Jeff Smoot

Jeff Smoot is an outdoor adventure writer and photographer primarily known for his hiking and climbing guidebooks including Falcon titles Climbing Washington’s Mountains, Rock Climbing Washington, and Best Climbs Cascade Volcanoes. His memoir, Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14 (Mountaineers Books 2019), is "a welcome trip back to the 1980s" (Climbing magazine), the decade of the greatest conflict and change in American rock climbing. His books, Pumping Concrete: A Guide to Seattle-Area Climbing Walls, and Schurman Rock: A History and Guide, both published in 2018, cover the history and development of artificial wall climbing.